The HFPA tradition of giving to worthy cases did not stop with the grants dinner at which almost $2 million was given away. Since then the donations have continued to a variety of charitable organizations, and although the emphasis remains on entertainment-related causes, many others have benefited, too.

People in Baja California who were made homeless by the devastation of Hurricane Odile received $25,000 and three charities favoured by the late Robin Williams— St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Muhammad Ali Parkinson's Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation received $3,000 each. And instead of a wedding present to George Clooney, HFPA president Theo Kingma decided to make a donation to one of Clooney's charities, Not On My Watch.

The Film Foundation, which received $350,000 from the HFPA at the grants dinner, is putting the money to good use with its latest project—the complete restoration of the 1940 John Wayne film The Long Voyage. The assignment to bring back the original quality of the 1940 film was again given to the highly experienced specialists at the laboratory of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.Archive. Film Noir, too, is making use of its $25,000 grant by announcing the restoration of the 1950 movie Woman on the Run which stars Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe. Letters of appreciation are arriving at the HFPA ioffices from the recipients. In a personal letter to Theo Kingma, Jan-Christopher Horak, the Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive thanked the HFPA for continued support of UCLA’s film preservation efforts, saying: “Indeed, Hollywood Foreign Press funding has been crucial to our work as the second largest film archive in the United States”. And Film Foundation founder and chairman Martin Scorsese has praised the HFPA for its 'passionate commitment" in supporting film restoration.